Mounting for steering wheels of vehicles



DCC. 27, A ARA-ro MOUNTING FOR STEERING'WHEELS OF VEHICLES Filed Nov. 13. 1950 Patented Dec. 27, 1932 UNITED STATES ACHILLE ARATO, F TURIN,` ITALY MOUNTING FOR STEERING WHEELS ,OF VEHICLES i Application led November 13, 1930, Serial No. 495,466, and in Italy November v23, 1929.

In mounting of steering wheels on vehicles it is known to mount a steering wheel in a fork-shaped end of a vehicle axle of a box which comprises pivots journalled in said fork end of the axle and has the wheel supporting pivot mounted to rotate inside it.

In such known arrangements the pivots of A' the wheel-carrying box in the axle fork are in objectionable operative conditions because they are cantilever one, that is they have one end solid with said box and their other end entirely free, and therefore they are subject to a bending stress in their portion where they connect with said box; further the operations for mounting the wheel-carrying box in the axle fork mounting is complicated and defective.

The present invention has for its object an arrangement removing the drawbacks referred to and in which the wheel-carrying box and the axle end provide compenetrating hinge members and each pivot passes through such hinge members and therefore is under a simple shearing stress.

25 On the annexed drawing is illustrated by way of example an embodiment of the present invention and Figure l is a fragmentary central section of a wheel and of means for mounting the same on a vehicle axle; y

Figure 2 is a plan view of the axle and fork and of the wheclcarrying box mounted therein as seen from line 22 of Figure l;

Figure 3 is a front view of the separate wheel-carrying box as seen from left end of Figure 2.

In the described embodiment the axle l provides at each end a fork comprising arms l', l and a box 2 is located intermediate said arms, said box 2 enclosing a pivot 3 which carries the wheel and is j ournalled in said box by means of antifriction bearings 55.

Vertical arms 6 ext-end upwards and downwards from said box 2 and said arms provide side lugs 6 adapted to embrace or extend over fork arms 1-1 of the axle l.

Antifriction washers 7 are loca-ted intermediate lugs 6-6 and arms l-l and intermediate said arms ll and adjacent by means ktening the steering arm 12 thereon.

are difficult and said flattened faces 2 of box 2,l and pivot pins 8 are looatedin and extend throughout'registering bores ofnparts 6', 1, 2; saidpivot pins 8 have heads 8 bearing on lugs 6 and their "internal ends vare'locked within box '2 by meansV of fastening pins 9.

A socket 1'0 is provided onbox 2for fas- Bythedescribed arrangement a very sim- -1 ple and'strong' is secured. Y,

Vha't I claim as my invention Vand desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is 1. A mounting vehicle axle having fork arms at each end, comprising a box entering the space intermediate said arms, a wheel-carrying pivot journalled near its two opposed parts radially projecting from the external edge of said box, a lug at the end of each part forming with said box a seat for one of said fork arms, and alined pivot pins each extending through corresponding` holes in one of said fork arms and in the adjacent lug and wall of saidbox providing a seat therefor.

2. A mounting for steering wheels on a vehicle axle having fork arms at each end, comprising a box entering the space intermediate said arms, bearings arranged at the ends of said box, a wheel-carrying pivot journalled in said bearings, two opposed parts radially mounting of steering wheels for steering wheels on a ends in said box, two v the adjacent wall of projecting from the external edge of said box, v

3. A mounting for steering wheels on a vei hicle axle having fork arms at each end, comprising a box contained substantially within the space intermediate said arms,v a wheelcarrying pivotjournalled in said box, two opposed parts projecting radially and inwardly-on the box from the external edge ofV of each part forming with providing a seat therefor, i

""oof said box, a lug at the end of each part forining with the adjacent wall of said box a seat for one of said fork arms, and alined pivot pins each extending through corresponding holes in one of said ork arms and in the adjacent lug and wall of said box providing a seat therefor.

4. A mounting for steering wheels on a vehicle axle having fork arms at each end, comprising a box contained substantially within the space intermediate said arms, bearings arranged at the ends of said box, a Wheel-carrying pivot journalled in said bearings, two opposed parts projecting radially and inwardly on the box from the external edge of said box, a lug at the end of each part Jforming with the adjacent wall of said box a seat for one of said fork arms, and alined pivot pins each extending through corresponding holes in one of said fork arms and in the adjacent lug and wall of said box providing a seat therefor, said holes being provided in the middle p0rtion of said box wall between said bearings therein. Y

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ACHILLE ARA'ro. 

